Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images

ISBN-13: 9780367746995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 200 str.

Susanne Kuchler

Opis

This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective.

Spis treści

Introduction; I. Attending to Time: Process, Action and Sequence; 1. Asia-Pacific Legacies In Eastern Kula Ring Outrigger Canoes; 2. The Living Shape of Time: Time and Technics in the case of Abulës-Speakers Yams; 3. The Lost Writing and the Drawn Thought: Shamanic Reflections on Knowledge and Temporality among the Marubo (Western Amazonia); II. Navigating Possible Worlds: Surfaces, Patterns and Shapes; 4.Primeval Skins: the Rugged and the Smooth Surface. Cultural Keynotes and Accords in the Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea; 5. A Meditation on Time: Pattern and Relational Ontologies in Northwestern Amazonia; 6. Biographical Relations in Amerindian and Melanesian Societies; III. Moving between Intersecting Worlds: Witnessing and Questioning; 7.Changing Houses: Architectural Transformations in the Ecuadorian Amazon; 8. Returned not Remade: Visuality, Authority and Potentiality of Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society; Epilogue